Tue 10 Jun 2008
Apple has released the iPhone 2.0 at their world-wide developer conference touting new and improved data speeds via AT&T’s 3G network. As a smartphone user on the Verizon network, I became curious to see how my data speeds compared. I accessed the mobile speed test at dslreports.com via my phone and noted a 758Kbit/s download rate while in State College, PA. I then quickly tethered my laptop to the phone via USB cable and used speedtest.net to obtain the following two results:
Next, I tethered my laptop to the phone using Bluetooth to obtain slower connection speeds to the same test servers:
I tested the connection rates at another location on the outskirts of State College and found similar results. In contrast, it seems that the new speeds of 215Kbit/s are not impressive, even substandard. I would really like to give Apple and AT&T the benefit of the doubt here and write this off as a side-effect of high network congestion at the WWDC. I would be interested to see if any reader has experience with AT&T’s 3G data speeds and can post their apparent transfer rates.
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